Experiencing massive growth in 2005, Tower Hamlets
Summer University required an extension of their original office to quickly
accommodate the additional staff for the Summer Uni London (SUL) project,
before their new premises was complete.

Using his contacts within the local community, Roger
Jones was able to plan, source, and implement a temporary office at the
Attlee Youth & Community Centre for the new and smaller SUL team.
Within the space of 2 weeks, a small office was setup with a series of
‘Thin Clients’ and VoIP phones, to allow fast and reliable
continuity of business.

To the outside world, phone numbers and emails addresses
remained consistent, whilst internally the SUL branch had the same access
to programmes and data that they would have had from the main office.

A few months later both the parent organisation
THSU, and SUL, moved into permanent premises. The continuity of email
and phone numbers enabled all concerned to make this a transparent move,
causing minimum disruption to communications with their stakeholders and
end users.